What this check covers

This free check asks whether your reporting system captures weak signals or quietly teaches people that silence is easier. Nine questions cover whether a worker can report a near miss or unsafe condition in under a minute without paperwork, whether contractors and people away from a desk have a channel they actually use, whether people believe honest reporting leads to learning rather than blame, whether reporting is positively acknowledged even when nothing was damaged, whether reports are triaged by potential severity rather than only actual outcome, whether significant reports get action proportional to their potential consequence, whether the reporter hears back, whether recurring themes are analysed across many reports, and whether lessons help other teams recognise similar signals. There are no separately flagged safety-critical questions; the check is about trust and the feedback loop. It is not tied to a single regulation. It is written for anyone responsible for a reporting system, from supervisors to safety managers. Zero reports can mean zero events or zero trust, and the questions are designed to tell the two apart.